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Advocates Tout Community Land Trusts for Solutions to Displacement, Blight

Community land trusts are a favorite tool of advocates who want to take a communitarian approach to property and public space in cities facing the challenges of population decline, blight, and gentrification.

August 27, 2017 - Yes! Magazine

Will Postcarbon Cities be More Kid-Friendly?

The post-carbon city will require dramatically different planning. Why not plan them with children in mind, writes Jason McLennan?

August 3, 2011 - Yes! Magazine

Can Portland Become a World-Class Cycling City?

Jay Walljasper writing in Yes! Magazine, reports on all the innovations that make Portland the premier cycling city in the U.S.

December 1, 2010 - Yes! Magazine

Taking the Gloom Out of Peak Oil

The latest issue of Yes! Magazine focuses on local resilience, and how preparing for a Peak Oil era -- through such efforts as the Transition Town movement -- can be a positive force for community building.

September 24, 2010 - Yes! Magazine

Community-Supported Businesses on the Rise

Stacy Mitchell reports on the growing trend of micro-financing, where small business people turn to the local community to get the funding they need to open restaurants or small shops.

August 31, 2010 - Yes! Magazine

Who You Gonna Call? City Repair!

In this interview with the City Repair Project co-founder Mark Lakeman, Yes! Magazine writer Brooke Jarvis learns how residents can fix their neighborhoods by creating public space where it never existed before. [Includes photo essay].

May 12, 2010 - Yes! Magazine

The Return of the "Local"

Stacy Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance summarizes some of the key positive trends in re-localization.

May 3, 2010 - Yes! Magazine

Can Cities "Remix" America?

Carl Anthony suggests that emerging land use policies (such as high speed rail) could threaten to exacerbate trends towards racial segregation, unless there is broader participation from people of color in planning processes.

March 10, 2010 - Yes! Magazine

Moving Beyond "Town Brawls"

The health care reform town halls are just the latest evidence that traditional forms of public engagement are no longer effective and in fact can be counterproductive, writes Sandy Heierbacher.

August 30, 2009 - Yes! Magazine

Brazilian City's Food Security Innovations End Hunger

As part of a special issue on food, Yes! Magazine profiles the Brazilian city of Belo, which has, by working with farmers and communities, put an end to hunger.

March 16, 2009 - Yes! Magazine

Can Land Trusts Keep Housing Affordable?

At a time of extreme housing market volatility, community land trusts are seen as a more sustainable form of tenure.

September 3, 2008 - Yes! Magazine

The Revolution Will Not be Internally Combusted

By staking claim to public space, Critical Mass rides are a powerful means of supporting First Amendment rights to free speech and free assembly, according to this piece from Yes! Magazine.

January 10, 2008 - Yes! Magazine

People Power, Corporations and 'Site Fights'

Corporations have long been able to use regulatory instruments and the courts to override community interests to gain access to resources or to site noxious land uses. Now communities are fighting back.

September 30, 2007 - Yes! Magazine

Can Oakland Lead The Green Economy?

Oakland's new progressive mayor and the Oakland Apollo Alliance are working to turn that city's fortunes around through "green collar" jobs and "green enterprise zones".

December 7, 2006 - Yes! Magazine

New Orleans' Uncertain Future

Between the diaspora of its residents, the prospect of a "Disney-fied" redevelopment plan, and the need to involve residents in planning processes, New Orleans is the site of an immense tug of war over its future.

December 15, 2005 - Yes! Magazine

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